Consultant Psychiatrist in East Devon Older People CMHT

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join Devon Partnership NHS Trust as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Older Peoples Mental Health within the established East Devon Community Mental Health Team. This 0.8 WTE post offers a supportive, experienced multidisciplinary environment providing specialist care to older adults across a diverse rural and coastal area.

You will join a collaborative and forward-thinking Older Peoples Mental Health Directorate with strong clinical leadership, excellent peer support, and close working relationships across community, inpatient, memory, crisis, and liaison psychiatry services. The role provides a rewarding balance of complex clinical work, multidisciplinary consultation, leadership, teaching, and service development.

East Devon CMHT supports a large older adult population with increasing levels of complexity, frailty, dementia, and functional mental illness. The service is well resourced, with experienced Senior Mental Health Practitioners, Senior Clinical Practitioners, Community Support Workers, and strong administrative support, allowing consultants to work in a genuinely consultative and leadership-focused role.

The Trust places a strong emphasis on wellbeing, compassionate leadership, flexible working, and professional development. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced consultant or newly qualified consultant seeking a fulfilling community psychiatry role within one of the most beautiful parts of the Southwest England.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide senior medical leadership within the East Devon Older Peoples Community Mental Health Team, delivering specialist assessment, diagnosis, and management for older adults with functional mental illness, cognitive disorders, and behavioural and psychological symptoms associated with dementia.

The consultant will work closely with a skilled multidisciplinary team, providing direct clinical input for complex presentations alongside consultation, supervision, and support to other MDT members. Duties include community clinics, domiciliary and care home visits, multidisciplinary consultation, liaison with acute hospitals and crisis services, and contribution to the Exeter Memory Clinic within Devon Memory Services.

The role includes close collaborative working with inpatient, liaison psychiatry, primary care, social care, and crisis teams to support safe and effective patient care across pathways. The post holder will also contribute to clinical governance, quality improvement, teaching, service development, and participation in the locality Section 12 daytime rota.

Job responsibilities

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.